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karmann54 Officially Full-On Dubber

337 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#635977
I was going sailing today, but the weather was a bit off. So I finally got to replacing the front shocks on my '72 square instead.

Got the old shocks off OK, but the metal sleeve between the bolt and the rubber stayed on the bolts. I could get the top ones off in a vice, but the lower ones are set in the trailing arm. Had a go with vice-grips but just roughed them up. Any good tricks to get these sleeves off?

the old shocks were original VW with 311 part number, must have been the originals - no wonder they're shot!

Cheers

Angus

Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·

#635996
heat it up and then spray WD40 onto it...........................or just use WD40, wait a couple of days and then use the vice-grips. (use the locking type vice grips) 👍


vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#636034
yeah as per above
good set of locking vice grips and a little heat WD 40 and a big hammer
and a friend to hold the heat gun also twisting while you hit the vice grips helps

just plain old hard labour n work to get them moving
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1500S Custom Title Time!

1,418 posts · joined Mar 2005 ·

#636040
Far quicker to use a cold chisel sharpened to about 60 deg inc angle so you can chisel a groove along the bush. This will expand the diameter of the bush and it should come off rather easy with a twist with multigrips or pliers.

See if you can replace them with stainless steel bushes.

DH

bajachris88 The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 6

6,661 posts · joined Apr 2005 ·

#636047
go spend $2 at a hardware store for a new bolt of same dimensions :P
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Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·

#636054
bajachris88 wrote:go spend $2 at a hardware store for a new bolt of same dimensions :P
its not a bolt, its the shaft the shock slips onto on the trailing arm.


vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#636124
go spend $2 at a hardware store for a new bolt of same dimensions
make sure its a high tensile bolt and then drill the trailing arm LOL 😊
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karmann54 Officially Full-On Dubber

337 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#636142
I've tried some WD40 and some heat (my trangia bushwalking metho stove!) and the locking vice grips with no luck so far. I was thinking of getting a hacksaw blade and cutting axially along the bush, but the cold chisel does the same thing a bit easier so I might give that a try. Lucky the rubber bush on the shocky is so flogged out it doesn't matter what dags are left on the metal bush, as I still got to drive this thing to work.

Angus

vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#636153
yeah i have had to hacksaw them as well sometimes
it just takes a bit of effort but the heat and cold spray allows better penetration
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Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,787 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#636159
karmann54 wrote:(my trangia bushwalking metho stove!)
Arent they the best thing since sliced bread!!
Wind / rain / whatever - you can still get a hot feed!

We also have an Atomic cappachinno machine.
Nothing better than a cappachinno in the bush!
Futue te ipsum!!!

1500S Custom Title Time!

1,418 posts · joined Mar 2005 ·

#636167
karmann54 wrote:I've tried some WD40 and some heat (my trangia bushwalking metho stove!) and the locking vice grips with no luck so far. I was thinking of getting a hacksaw blade and cutting axially along the bush, but the cold chisel does the same thing a bit easier so I might give that a try. Lucky the rubber bush on the shocky is so flogged out it doesn't matter what dags are left on the metal bush, as I still got to drive this thing to work.

Angus
Cut along the axis as I descibed a few posts above using a flat cold chisel. This spreads the bush along the axis and increases the diameter which loosens it on the stud.

DH

karmann54 Officially Full-On Dubber

337 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#636178
Bizarre

I've had my trangia for 20+ years now. I remember one trip I did at uni walking about one week on Hornibrook Island off Cardwell. There were 8 of us with supposedly two trangias. Only problem was that the other guy forgot the burner for his so for a week my one trangia cooked for eight of us. We had to eat in shifts.... the pots aren't that big on them.


I'll try the cold chisel/hacksaw tonight. What started out as a half-hour job has kind of blown up a bit now.

Angus